I'm trying to catch up, but I'm finding it a bit difficult. The problem with rel="me" is that it's merely an alternative version, and not authoritative or canonical, right? Why is rel="me self" desirable though? Were there any other alternatives considered?
Thanks, Ben West On 1/31/07, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/31/07, Ben Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are voting only on the use of @rel="me self" to reference an > authoritative hCard that parsers should follow. > > e.g. > > <div class="vcard"> > <a class="fn url" href="http://ben-ward.co.uk/about"; rel="me > self">Ben Ward</a> > </div> Just to be 100% pedantically clear: (Part I) If Ben puts this on his home page, parsers look at "http://ben-ward.co.uk/"; will know to look for an authoritative hCard because of these two things: 1. there's a vcard 2. it has a "url" link with rel="me self" (Part II -- implication) If Ben places a vcard on a random page with url="http://ben-ward.co.uk/";, a consumer can optionally look there to find an authoritative hCard. The 80-20 rule covers the case where we would want to have more than one authoritative hCard per page (i.e. it's not that common) (Part III - rel-self) We're getting the definition of rel-self from here [1]: "self: the feed itself". It's a small stretch, but I just did some searching for counter-examples (i.e. where rel-self doesn't point to the best URI for a feed) and came up empty. (Part IV -- the word authoritative) I can't think of a better word. See definition 2 here [2] So +1 Regards, etc... [1] http://atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#link [2] http://www.answers.com/authoritative&r=67 -- David Janes Founder, BlogMatrix http://www.blogmatrix.com http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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